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OPEN LETTER TO UMASS PRESIDENT MEEHAN FROM UNIVERSITY UNIONS
Demands job protections, engagement with students, staff, and faculty on reopening campuses
WHAT LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBORS LOOKS LIKE IN THE AGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS
The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in American society regarding who has access to sustainable and equitable healthcare, which students have strong enough support system in their homes to have an optimum experience with remote learning, which workers have the flexibility to work from home, and which do not.
WITH COVID-19, WE’RE LOSING THE SAME POPULATION THE AIDS PANDEMIC TOOK
Clergy in these communities have been performing non-stop homegoings, and helping families, loved ones, and communities of the deceased through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death.
GUEST OPINION: MASS SHOULD ELIMINATE CASH BAIL DURING THE PANDEMIC
The stakes are far too high to justify such detention. During the pandemic, incarceration puts a person’s life in serious danger.
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON COVID-19
Lessons to prepare, grieve, console, help, learn, teach, and unite
SIGN “MIT HARVARD PETITION” DEMANDING BETTER SOLUTIONS FOR CAMBRIDGE HOMELESS DURING PANDEMIC
Editor's note: The following petition was drafted by Cambridge City Councilor Quinton Zondervan and is reprinted here in the public interest. Read "Cambridge Plan to Warehouse Homeless Could Spark COVID Outbreak" by DigBoston's Jason Pramas for more background.
INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF BOSTON
Help them fight COVID-19
LIVING THROUGH CORONAVIRUS, AND IMPROVING, TOGETHER
This pandemic doesn’t call for pandemonium, petty divisions, political wrangling, or panic buying. We are all in this together. Our collective concern should be about saving lives and not the momentary upending of our lifestyles.
REALITY CHECK
Massachusetts as a failed state, Boston as a failed city?
